Comparative literature Books

Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection takes up the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women's literature and articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own...

This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture.

Translation and Objects offers a new and original perspective in Translation Studies originating from the conviction that in the world today, translation is pervasive and is an expanding field, incorporating linguistic issues, but also connecting it to...

This book elucidates the work of 21st-century European thinkers to describe the event of art as an intuited correspondence between (a) a sensuous object grasped at its limit of form and deformation and (b) an aesthetic subject unsettlingly exposed at its...

Through a metaphorical journey of Shakespeare in traditional Chinese theatre, using three Chinese opera productions of Hamlet as signposts, the book discusses the relationship between Shakespeare and Chinese theatrical traditions.

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these respond under extraneous circumstances like conflicts.

Keats and Scepticism explores Keats's affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats's poetry anew in the light of this affinity.

Serrano calls for a reassessment of the practice of World Literature with six case studies taken from the Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Korean and Latin American traditions. Although in recent years the field has adopted more inclusive and...

Gartii dooddii Miisaanka Maansada waxa loo saaray guddi. Tirada xubnaha, magacyadoodii, sidii ay garta u qaadeen iyo go'aannadii ay ka soo saareen intaba ka akhriso gudaha buugga.Faahfaahin intaa ka badan sida tirada ereyada guud iyo ku gaar ee...

Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and...

New editions and facsimiles of Percy Bysshe Shelley's works are changing the landscape of Shelley studies by making complete compositions and fragments that have received only limited critical attention readily available to scholars. Building on the work...

A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner,...

Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The...

In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth...

تقدِّمين في كلِّ رسالة مِن هذه الرسائل حكاية إنسانية عن عوالم عاطفية دفينة تعصف في صراعات الشخص، بينه وبين نفسه، وبينه وبين شريك الحياة، تارةً تستيقظ تلك المشاعر وتثور، وتارةً أخرى تستسلم إلى الحبِّ معلنةً انتصاره.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Was in Kinderbüchern denkbar ist, prägt unsere Vorstellungen von der Welt. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Münster (Germanistisches Institut), Veranstaltung: (Nicht-)Wissen erzählen. Das Modell Vorgeschichte in der Literatur...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim (Lehrstuhl für Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (A III)), language: English, abstract: This paper is dealing with the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Moderne Literatur, Note: 1,0, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Seminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Im internationalen Kontext gesehen, stellen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität Regensburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, ausgehend von den Definitionen für...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Mittelalterliche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit soll die Bedeutung der ritterlichen Tugenden für Hartmanns Roman Iwein...

The Translations of Valery Larbaud is a concise yet detailed study of Larbaud’s entire career as a translator. It will be of special interest to scholars of comparative literature and translation studies.Allison Connell uses close analysis and...

Christian poetry was born at the crossroads of the Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Syrian cultures of late antiquity. Pioneered by poets like Ephrem the Syrian, Gregory Nazianzus, and Prudentius, a uniquely Christian poetry--and poetics--has flourished across...

This book is a comparative study between two great poets of the adjacent states. While studying and analyzing their works both in Bengali and Odia, the author never felt who is superior or inferior of the two, but how equally inspiring both the poets are...

Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.

William Park received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He has taught at Hamilton College, Columbia, the University of Navarre, and for thirty-eight years...

The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the 20th-century, in an accessible resource for students and teachers alike.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität zu Köln (Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I), Veranstaltung: Medien und Medienreflexion in der Literatur, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Unter Rückgriff auf die Ergebnisse der religionswissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen seiner...

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar I), course: The Weird and the Fanstastic in the American Gothic, language: English, abstract: One...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,3, Universität zu Köln (Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Heinrich von Kleists 1807 im „Morgenblatt für gebildete...

Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject African Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, Makerere University (Faculty of Arts), course: Literature, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the intricate characteristics of Lumasaba (a language...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität zu Köln (Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I), Veranstaltung: Geschichte und Theorie der Kriminalerzählung, Sprache: Deutsch,...

What can two countries at the edge of Europe with very different histories, people and climates have in common? When brought together as they are in this book, probably for the first time, Sicily and Scotland prove to have some surprising similarities as...

Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse's radical rethinking of Anthony Trollope. Beginning with a history of...

Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Rosa Mucignat takes a fresh look at the relationship between representation and reality. As Mucignat points out, worlds evoked in fiction all depend to a greater or lesser extent on...

In her study of key radio dramas broadcast from 1930 to 1943, Lauren Rea analyses the work of leading exponents of the genre against the wider backdrop of nation-building, intellectual movements and popular culture in Argentina. During the period that...

The first scholarly treatment of the life of William Maginn (1794-1842), David Latané's meticulously researched biography follows Maginn's life from his early days in Ireland through his career in Paris and London as political journalist and writer and...

The result of extensive archival recovery work, Ellen Brinks's study fills a significant gap in our understanding of women's literary history of the South Asian subcontinent under colonialism and of Indian women's contributions and responses to...

In the decades after the French Revolution, philosophers, artists, and social scientists set out to chart and build a way to a new world and their speculative blueprints circulated like banknotes in a parallel economy of ideas. Examining representations...

Over the course of her 57-year career, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published nine best-selling novels, but her significant contributions to American literature have until recently gone largely unrecognized. Brenda Ayres, in her long overdue critical...

In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender,...

Suggesting that politics and power are at the center of Margaret Atwood's fiction, Theodore F. Sheckels examines Atwood's novels from The Edible Woman to The Year of the Flood. Whether her treatment is explicit as in Bodily Harm and The Handmaid's Tale...

Challenging literary histories that locate the emergence of fantastic literature in the Romantic period, David Sandner shows that tales of wonder and imagination were extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century. Sandner engages contemporary...

In her study of eighteenth-century literature and medical treatises, Mary McAlpin takes up the widespread belief among cultural philosophers of the French Enlightenment that society was gravely endangered by the effects of hyper-civilization. McAlpin's...